The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-02-25
sleeplessness and It's Remedies

tlnual mental strain or worry. The
capilaries of the brain become stretch.
ed, and lose their resiliency: thew
are unable, therefore, to empty
themselves OF blood when the hour 81
rest comes round, and so wakefulness
continues far into the night until the
body is fairly worn out and sinks into
the lethargy of exhaustion.
1t will he we'll for people who suffer
thus to at once take a holiday. You
say you can not, that business will
not permit you. l doubt this very
much. Would you really throw your
life or probably your reason away for
the sake OF business? The question is
one you ought to try to answer. But
it is my privilege to tell you that in
the early stage of sleepIessness, a few
weeks stay at q brRcing seaside place
often acts like magic; people return,
home restored to health and calm
return home to positively wonder
that the cares and worries that so
bothered them could have been such
bOgies.
Above all other remedies for sleep.
lessness | place change OF air and
change Of scene, in communion with
plain nutritious diet and a more nat.
ural way of living
Why can | not sleep? 1t may be
that you really have-unknown to
yOu-some functional arrangement OF
the liver, the stomach or the heart.
This must be removed, and sleep will
return to your pillow, and with it
health.
Think and consider whether of late
you have given way to any table in
discretion that may have affected the
liver and rendered it either sluggish or
too active. In this case the blood
will in reality have become poisoned
and contaminated with bile, the mind
becomes dull and probably gloomy all
day and OveraCtive towards nightfall.
The sure indication of treatment is
to strictly regulate the diet for a few
weeks, to take an occasional blue pill
at night, with a glass of Pullna water
half an hour before breakfast, and to
take a course of Turish baths liz per.
mlted by your own medical adviser),
with a reasonable amount of exercise
in the open air.
Dyspepsia will produce sleeplessness,
and may in ordinary cases be cured
in the same way, though aperients
should rather be avoided. Most care
full regulation of diet is, however q sine
qua non.
1t is not a good plan to go to bed
with an entirely empty stomach,
Again, if the body feels hot, a cold
hath fO1loua1 bv q hottla nj soda
water and fifteen grains of the bicar.
Donate of soda, will have a good effect.
Sometimes a hot bath will do more
good than a. cold one; the state OF ones
own feeling is to be consulted, and the
results made mental note OF.
Do you smoke much2 If SO, q return
to health is not to be expected until
the habit is overcome.
Exercise in abundance taken during
the day in the open air Is in hundreds
of cases a cure for sleeplessness, but
this exercise should not be of a too
fatiguing kind; it should be spread
over a great many hours; it should be
pleasant, calming exercise, and not
continued up to a late hour.
Overfatigue must be carefully avoid
ed.
The practice of taking stimulantsto
any extent is very apt to produce
sleeplessness by keeping up unnatural
excitement of che BRAIN.
Wine negue has been recommended
for a ~nightcap, and even stronger slim.
ulants. They should only be per
scribed by q medical man, for they are
narcotics, and narcotics in any form
tend to make matters worse In the
long run.
Well, then, what l wish particularly
to impress upon my readers is the
fact that the cause of s~leeplessness
must be sought out and removed be.
fore there can be the slightest chance
or hope OF anything like a permanent
cure.
Then hygiene steps in for good
regulation of diet and of your entire
and complete method of living.
Rise betimes and have that bracing
cold bath, with a few handfuls of sea.
salt in it, eat some fruit before break
faer, notably prunes, oranges, grapes
or stewed apples. Avoid tea and
coffee and cigar allurements. Take no
kind of stimulant on an empty stom
ach. Avoid fret and care and overex-
element during the day. Determine
-if you can-that nothing shall annoy
or irritate you.
Take exercise you must, even
though at great expense and inconven.
fence.
Cycling in moderation, and without
squirting or rushing up hills, is the
best and most delightful of exercises,
but beware of catching cold; always
change a damp undergarment before
sitting down to dinner, and previously
to r~edressings it will be found most re
freshing to rub the body with q cold